Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 2, Issue 3, (September 1, 2017) | Page 25

Slave to Lust or Karmic Prisoner Sex! The very word invokes multitude of feelings, thoughts, emotions; each different for different individuals. Its perception changes subject to individual’s mental, emotional and physical state, and not to mention the shades lent by the social, economic, racial, religious and other human variants. The emotions it invokes in an individual of a particular sex, age, region, religion, socio-economic strata in current times would be far different if he was in a different era. With so many perceptions and shades Sex plays a key role in shaping the soul of a society! Perception about the very notion about sex in a particular group, region, religion can easily be identified and tell a lot about that particular group, region or religion etc. 2. The cornerstone of human existence, Sex plays a key role in defining the dynamics of any social group, down to the level of each individual member. It has been hailed, celebrated and held sacred, while at same time it has been denounced, shamed and seen as gateway to doom! Say what we may, yet there is no escaping the fact that it’s one of the most intimate, tender, core aspect of our ‘Being’, and its harmonious assimilation and acceptance is crucial to one’s overall Evolution as an individual, as a Soul! 3. Sex is not merely an act! It’s the thought, the feeling, the emotion, or simply saying ‘The Energy’ that’s the crucial element of how it manifests and shapes the world around! Tantra views sexual energy as the ‘Portal’ to higher awareness, or as Osho in his book ‘Sex to Super Consciousness’ talks about its transformative power, and so do so many cultures and traditions. This energy can help you become a ‘Yogi’ on Path of Liberation